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From: iwm@icdoc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's BCPL?
Message-ID: <285@ivax.icdoc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 17:07:10 EST
Article-I.D.: ivax.285
Posted: Thu Jan 30 17:07:10 1986
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References: <410@wlbr.UUCP> <376@3comvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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In article <376@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
>BCPL stands for the "Before 'C' Programming Language", and was developed
>for the PDP-11 many years ago by the folks who brought us UNIX (Ken Thompson,
>et al).  I believe you can read more in The 'C' Programming Language.

Well no - it stands for Basic CPL (CPL was Combined Programming Language,
which came somewhere between ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. It was designed and
implemented by Martin Richards at Cambridge (UK) in 1967. The line of
languages is BCPL => B => C.


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